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Melbourne Film Festival to Show $234 Million Bitcoin Scammer Documentary
You can’t take it with you – or can you? When Canadian crypto scammer Gerald Cotten died from complications of Crohn’s disease...
Influential Aussie Crypto Personality Remains Silent on Alleged Scam
A Twitter storm has erupted with Australian cryptocurrency influencer Alex Saunders at its centre, other investors alleging they’ve be...
Family Loses $75,000 in Crypto via Coinbase SIM Card Swap Scam
A US family of four has had their crypto savings drained through a fraudulent SIM-swap. Their Coinbase account holding US$75,000 was emptied...
Bondly Token Crashes 90% in Potential DeFi Rug Pull
Bondly Finance, a decentralised NFT platform, has suffered an alleged exploit from an unknown attacker. The project claims that an “unknow...
YouTuber Logan Paul Slammed for Promoting Shitcoin to 23 Million Followers
Popular YouTuber Logan Paul finds himself at the centre of the latest pump and dump scandal after Dink Doink, a meme coin he has been promot...
ASIC Cautions Investors Against “Finfluencers”
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cautioned new and young investors about the risks of taking advice from soci...
Tinder Date Goes Bad in Attempted Crypto Grab
A US man was drugged by a woman he met on Tinder who then attempted to steal his crypto. The man, who was a client of Casa, a company that o...
Another South African Ponzi Scheme Exposed for 8,000 Bitcoin
The award for the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Scam of 2020 goes to Mirror Trading International (as declared by Chainalysis). MTI has bee...
Latest Australian Crypto Scams Going Around in 2021
Investment scams involving bitcoin and other crypto assets are on the rise, leading to huge losses for many Australians and warnings from co...
Esports Influencers With 5 Million Followers Exposed in “Save the Kids” Crypto Scam
FaZe Clan is in a hot mess after an alleged pump and dump scheme was exposed. The eSports group was accused of running one of the worst infl...
Australian Bitcoin Romance Scam Victim Melanie Kilgour Sentenced to Six Months in Jail plus Community Service
Australian schoolteacher Melanie Kilgour, who became the victim of an online Bitcoin romance scam after misappropriating funds from her form...
Stolen COVID-19 Vaccines and Fraudulent Certificates Sold on Darknet Markets for Crypto
An investigation undertaken by the Coinfirm blockchain analytics team has uncovered illicit trade in Covid-19 vaccines, certificates, and te...